23.11.903.5 International Fire Code Section 903.5 amended – Testing and maintenance.
Section 903.5 of the International Fire Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
903.5 Testing and maintenance. Sprinkler systems shall be tested and maintained in accordance with Section 901.
903.5.1 Fire Sprinkler and Standpipe main/express drains. Fire Sprinkler and standpipe main/express drains shall be positioned to drain to the sanitary sewer. Additionally, maintenance or testing discharges from fire pumps shall be treated in order to comply with the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements.
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Water drained or otherwise discharged from a fire sprinkler system, standpipe or fire pump in the course of testing and maintenance is considered an “illicit discharge” and must drain to the sanitary sewer or be treated in order to discharge to storm drains, ditches, or water bodies.
(Ord. 6532 § 2, 2020.)